Hidden Wireless Ip Surveillance Cameras

We have purchased two of these so far to use primarily as NVRs for a large number of IP cameras on a school campus. Licensing costs aside, Synology Surveillance Station does a really nice job making it easy to set up and scale with the number of cameras you have. We linked two together, making one the primary and the other a secondary target for recordings. Surveillance Station records direct-to-disk, and does a decent job of adjusting camera settings directly using ONVIF. We have about 50+ cameras running at resolutions from 1280x720 up to 2560x1600, some PTZ, some ceiling-mount fisheyes, mostly wide angle fixed, and everything works pretty well. We were even able to use the manual camera configuration to use some uncommon double-lens cameras. With about 26 cameras assigned to each RS422+, we see about 20-25% CPU on each on average during a typical day. We can comfortably handle 32 per unit, and supposedly up to 40 if needed. With x4 6TB drives in each set in SHR-1 (equivalent to RAID5) we have about a month or so of footage retention. The licensing is a little pricey at $50 per camera (unless you buy in bulk from some european IP camera shops...), but it is perpetual and I think worth the expense. Using two of these units, 8 cheap drives from eBay (luckily these do not suffer from the Synology whitelist) and a bunch of camera licenses, for around under $5000 I was able to build and set up a really easy to use and reliable NVR system with plenty of future expandability. 2-3 users are regularly connected on their desktops without issue.

There are lots of free applications for IP Cameras, but if you're serious about IP Surveillance you can't do better than Axis Camera Station, and the best way to acquire the licenses is from B&H.

Have a large home and wireless surveillance cameras outside. Now have great connection to outside cameras and can freely roam the house with wireless devices without dropping connection. I give the pair of Deco X55 a big thumbs up!

Bought these to use with IP cameras for production. They work so well am using them to mount just about anything you can think of, from Wireless antennas to Camera tripod head. We do a lot of live streaming for events and there is usually a rail of some type that lets me replace a tripod and save space. For the price you can't beat 'em.

My IP PTZ cameras love these.

Cameras easy to use and take great pictures. I use them for hunting and for surveillance around my property. I have several cameras.

We are a developer of command and control software and often buy various brands of IP cameras to test with our software suite. This camera was an addition late last year and we've actually deployed it on our property (mostly for testing). We cannot say enough about Axis products... this camera works as advertised and was easily integrated into our software. It is ONVIF compliant and provides crystal clear video. We are located in Florida and rarely use the defogging feature, but we would love to have self cleaning optics (a feature starting to appear on high end IP cameras) since the camera is located nearly 30 feet in the air making it difficult to clean... but that is the only thing we had in the wish it had it column. Overall a highly versatile and functional PTZ IP camera... we highly recommend this one!

I use this controller for both Marshall and AXIS PTZ cameras using VISCA over IP and ONVIF

Added this third Deco X55 to better service the wireless doorbell and surveillance floodlight at front of house. Really like this mesh system and the ease of adding additional access points. The system also balances itself for optimum strength and seamless roaming.

It's a wire. I love it. Just when everything is going wireless, it's nice to know that sometimes, you can get by without an IP address. I'm sure some other brand will sell you a wire for 10x the price, but in the end, it's still a wire. This wire does its job well. What's not so good about it? It's 3' long. So if you're plugging it into your phone or mp3 player, and it falls off the table, the wire won't keep it from hitting the ground.